Chapter 31 A little help
“Let’s try it…”
Andrew took the newly acquired wooden signs and balls of different sizes, found an empty classroom, put the wooden board there, and then closed the curtains - he would not repair the glass at the moment, whether it was asking someone to come or being asked. It's not a good thing if Filch catches him...
'It's still very strange - it's actually just four branches... the transformation technique is really amazing. ’
After sighing again, Andrew pulled out his wand and whispered the spell.
"Wingardim Leviosa!"
With the last beautiful twitch of the wand, the smallest imitation Snitch seemed to be twitched by something and hit the wall directly.
"The accuracy is good, but the speed is a bit slow..."
Andrew cast another spell at the second imitation Bludger - this time slower and more destructive than the word Bludger.
Obviously, as the senior said, they are just a showpiece, and you still have to go to the court to experiment.
However, it's enough.
There is no need to experiment with the largest size.
Andrew began to calm down and used the levitating spell to twitch the imitation snitch again and again. The question that occasionally appeared was - why can it fly so fast, or should it be called a levitating spell?
However, this did not affect his becoming more and more familiar with this spell - as time passed, the sound of the floating spell hitting the replica snitch became more and more intense, and his spell-casting movements became more casual.
He can even stop in the middle of a small sprint and quickly pull out the snitch, and then smash it into the seven or eight-point area of the wooden plate with a crisp sound.
"who?"
Andrew, who was practicing hard, suddenly heard the sound of the door opening. He immediately turned his head and pressed his left hand firmly on the nail in his pocket.
"Ah...sorry...I...I don't know..."
There were obvious sobs in the intermittent words, but the person who came was a boy - Andrew still had the impression that he was the boy who was looking for Toad on the Hogwarts Express, and his name seemed to be Neville.
"Come in and tell us what's wrong."
Although he is reluctant to be interrupted, he has vowed to face life well and be positive - so when he encounters troubles that do not violate morality, he will provide limited help, just like on the train Like that.
To put it simply, if he does not know how to swim, he will not go into the water to save people, but he will seek help from others and try to find longer branches.
"No, it's nothing..."
"I can definitely help with something," Andrew said with a kind smile, "You should remember me, I saw you on the train."
"Ah..." The crying boy raised his head, and it didn't take him long to recognize Andrew, "Yes, that time on the train, thank you."
"So what happened? Maybe I can give you some helpful advice."
"I screwed up...they made up stories about me...and I lost a lot of points..."
"Everyone loses points... but they?"
"Those Slytherin guys... they said I'm not suitable to be a wizard... I actually doubt it..."
Okay, the matter is clear - judging from the few words heard at the dinner table, this Neville is the Gryffindor target chosen by the professor this year. However, this Neville is not very good in other subjects, and then psychological Some breakdown.
"There must be nothing wrong with being a wizard, otherwise the school wouldn't admit you. You're just too nervous..."
Andrew simply expressed relief and immediately asked the most important question, "Did you beat them?"
"ah?"
Even Neville was shocked by Andrew's thinking, "Hit them? Beat them?"
"Yeah, punch them in the nose when you say so."
"No, grandma taught me..."
"Grandma told you not to hit the person who attacked you?" "No, grandma told you not to let me mess around in school."
"That's not random...and it's really not good for you to beat him up now...It's not easy for seniors to get involved...Let me think about it..." Andrew thought for a while, and the idea came out, "You go find Harry Bo Is it special?"
"ah?"
"Yes, go find Harry Potter," Andrew said firmly, "He is the most popular person among your first-year Gryffindors, right?"
"You were bullied by Slytherin and then went to him. What's the problem?"
Although it is a bit extreme to fight back, if those who mock are not stopped, they will become more and more aggressive in the future, and even fighting back will be considered an insult to them.
If the best opportunity is missed, you can only choose the second best option and go to the big brother's hall to fight back. This will make it less likely to cause provocations one after another.
Although it was a bit of a rip-off for Harry Potter, people in Gryffindor House were used to deducting points - points were deducted for fighting at Hogwarts. Andrew had studied it, even at the expense of practicing spells. time.
"Is this okay?"
"Of course, I suggest you go to the common room and say it - you have to trust your classmates in your college!"
Perhaps out of genuine unity, or perhaps because Andrew's suggestion last time did not undermine the trust he had brought, Neville left quickly.
‘Although it’s not very good, it’s really good for him – it’s something that no one can stop… It’s the lesser of two evils. ’
Andrew shook his head, closed the door and continued to practice the spell.
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"Fight, ambush!"
"Many against one! You should take the lead, Potter!"
"Who are the others? Forget it - you're not going to say, clean the toilet, Mr. Potter!"
In Professor McGonagall's office, Harry, with a bloody nose and messy hair mixed with straw sticks, listened to the scolding, "If Professor Sprout hadn't passed by, you would have beaten the Slytherins down with dignity. !”
"He even ran away. Freshmen can't run away. There must be someone from the upperclassmen leading them - and you definitely won't tell me!"
"No, maybe you brought it with you. Okay, twenty points from Gryffindor. You clean the toilets for a week. Mr. Potter, go report to Filch!"
Harry was kicked out of the office - his mind was still in a mess at this moment. After listening to Neville's words, and then the senior man said the routine method, he pulled someone out of the lounge in a daze.
He himself never thought that he could bring out so many classmates, and then everyone happily found those Slytherin students - those guys' mouths were not clean at the moment.
Then...he arrived at Professor McGonagall's office in chaos.
Oh no…
A week of toilet…
Somewhat dejected, he returned to the lounge and was startled by the welcoming crowd.
"cool!"
"Nothing said at Professor McGonagall's end!"
"Nice ambush!"
"Obviously they provoked me first!"
(Twenty points were deducted! However, the voice was drowned out.)
In the Gryffindor common room, it was as lively as a festival.
(End of chapter)